Anytime a movie has Dolph Lundgren in it, it automatically becomes a good movie.

Last night I watched "The Russian Specialist", starring and written by Dolph Lundgren. It actually would be a Shadowrun movie since it deals with some ragtag downtrodden mercenaries hired to free a young female from a wealthy family from the clutches of a fat murdeous Russian mafia dude. Who pumps her full of drugs and stuff.

I actually think that the film was very well done in terms of visuals, and it had enough gritty violence for my tastes. When people are shot with pistols in this film they often get wounded rather than just neatly dropping dead, which is always a plus in my book. As always Dolph Lundgren exhibited the best martial arts displays found in any movies. Nowadays when you see a film with martial arts it's always the over-the-top acrobatic stuff and I feel like most directors are incapable of seeing outside the "Jackie Chan box." But Dolph Lundgren, a former full contact karate practitioner, brings a very real and down to earth style of martial arts combat to the screen and it's always a refreshing pleasure to watch. He's not acrobatic but you can see he knows how to kick, punch, knee, and throw. Athleticism and the fluid crispness of expertise are evident in his every technique.

I'd recommend seeing "The Russian Specialist" if you should ever encounter it in a rental venue.

Have you seen Silent Trigger? It's also with Dolph Lundgren, and I have to admit it's one of the strangest bad action movie I've ever seen.

The story makes so little sense that at the end of the movie I was wondering if it wasn't some art house movie.

No, I haven't seen Silent Trigger, but some Dolph Lundgren films, including his recent Missionary Man, do indeed leave me scratching my head and wondering if I wasn't perceptive enough to grasp the real point of the film.

Dolph is the man...he eats hinds for breakfast.

Also, bad action...does it get any better than that?

On that note, there are three movies that I must see. Thank you, sirs.

Ever seen Showdown In Little Tokyo?

Dolph Lungren and Brandon Lee (Yes, the Brandon Lee) as partners in the LAPD's asian task force, working to bring down a Yakuza drug ring headed by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Also has Tia Carrere as the obligatory tough girl in distress/love interest of Lungren.

Seeing the big dutch guy play the lead as the "modern day samurai" and the son of Bruce Lee play the culturally clueless American/comic relief role kind of offends my sensibilities, but Tia's nude hot tub scene more than makes up for it.

Favorite lines:

"Tanaka, haven't I told you this is illegal, and it pisses me off?" -- Lungren

"You know what I said about the fish? I could change my mind." -- Lee

"Now you have one arm left to wipe your ass with, do you want to keep it?" -- Tagawa

"I'm too much woman for you, Kenner-san, you better start with something easier." -- Old Japanese lady

"Kenner, if we don't make it through this, I want you to know something--you have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man." -- Lee, said with a straight face

"If a warrior focuses on only one side, he leaves himself open to attack from the other sides." -- Lungren, said with a straight face

"That time, I heard you coming." -- Carrere

The win of that movie is incalculable.